Philip S. Van Cise

Philip S. Van Cise (25 October 1884-8 December 1969) was the Republican district attorney of Denver, Colorado from 1921 to 1925.

Biography
Philip S. Van Cise was born in Deadwood, South Dakota in 1884 and moved to Denver, Colorado at the age of 16. He served as a US Army intelligence officer in France during World War I and became active in Republican politics after the war, becoming district attorney of Denver in 1921. He helped to bring down Lou Blonger's gang and also fought against the Ku Klux Klan, and his life was threatened, crosses were burned in his yard, and he returned to private practice in 1925. For more than 20 years, he served as an attorney for Rocky Mountain News, and he retired in 1967 and died in 1969.